Postcards from a Mythical Childhood Included in Above and Below Exhibition in Response to Time & Tide Project and the Warning about the Risk to Coastal Communities – Becky Nuttall English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark Ambassador Artist

My postcards included in Above and Below exhibition show photographs of me as a small child taken in Brixham. The original images were taken on Brixham Harbourside and Mansands Beach Brixham in the late 1950s and 1960s. I have collaged these photographs with images of classical gods and imagery. The landscape where we spent our childhood seems unchanged but it holds myth and legends that have migrated through the western world, changing our perception of our small world as we mature and understand the fragility of all we hold and love. As climate change increases idyllic childhoods, landscapes and our lives become like ‘Ozmandias of Egypt’ – ‘lone and level sands stretched far’

Becky Nuttall English Riviera UNESCO Global Ambassador Artist

The exhibition launches on 9th September 6 – 8pm at Artizan Gallery Fleet Street Torquay. It runs from September 10th – October 16th